I have to set up 12 ap's in a motel and we got them having their own IP's (192.168.1.9, 192.168.1.10, and so on and so forth.) The problem is after it works for a few days, something happens and it suddenly stops working, all of the access points stop working. These access points are connected to a switch which connects to the router and I plug my laptop directly into the switch and lots of times it doesn't work and says there's a network error, and it works for a while after I disconnect certain access points from the switch, there's both PoE's and non-PoE's. I connect to the back of the router (it's one of those cable modem/router 2 in 1's) and it always works. I tried putting a router to the back and that's set up the same was as the ap's, except that doesn't work either, but any computer connected directly to it works just fine. I tried setting up a DHCP on each of the access points and it just waits to connect, even though it's on full bars. Some wireless devices don't even see the access points while others do. I think it's an IP assignment error but I don't know what to look at first. I thought about connecting the switch directly to my computer and have it broadcast on wifi and run a program like wireshark to see if the access points were really working and see which one's weren't, and even do them one by one to see if the configurations were ok. The craziest thing is the cable modem/router they use, I called the ISP and they said they can't give out the login info to actually check to see what's going on, I find that ridiculous, specially in a business when you gotta wait for them to understand what you are trying to say on customer support but that's another story...
Anyone got any ideas? Or was more detail needed?
Edited by FCCAGut, 13 March 2012 - 05:28 AM.
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